hope you know that

au where jeongguk is a part time model for an online clothing company which requires him to upkeep an instagram account. honestly, he’s not too sure what to do with it, he mainly posts pictures he takes and some selfies, and it seems to keep his management happy so he’s cool with it. the only thing though, is that because his posts are usually vague, jeongguk knows that his online persona is someone that comes off as aloof or maybe even cold. it’s not true at all, but he guesses that he doesn’t really need to prove his personality to the world, and the few people whose opinions matter to him already know what he’s like, so he thinks it might just be easier to keep it that way. his management thinks that way too. so when he loses his ds in the middle of playing an intense dating sim game, jeongguk panics. he would’ve just let it go if not for the fact that his mii on the ds is a very accurate representation of himself and he created all his friends too. he groans. his management would not be happy.

“so, dating sims.”“okay listen, i’m totally cool with you knowing but could you please keep this to yourself? i would probably get fired if they found out that my cold city aesthetic has been ruined.”“oh. i mean, i was just gonna ask which dating sims you’ve played before but um. yeah i guess?”

I made a post last year about how SU is brilliant at showing how communication is essential for any kind of relationship, and how it’s key to solving conflict. But the element they add in Kevin Party is that sometimes, you need time apart first. To calm down, to realize things, to gain perspective. In the heat of the moment, emotion can really blur your judgment, and that just makes things worse.

There are times you aren’t ready to talk, and that’s okay. Communication is two-way, and if one person isn’t ready to accept or hear what the other wants to say, then that’s not communication, regardless of how many hours you spend “talking”. And the scary thing about it is this pseudocommunication can happen without you realizing it. You can feel “calm” and “open”, but it turns out you’re only hearing the other out to shut them down and invalidate them with what you think. And that’s what drags out conflicts.

Relationships involve people, and people have feelings. Hard logic and a self-centered perspective aren’t the best tools for issues like these. What’s key to resolving conflict is communication, true, but that only works if you have your head, you’re truly open to understanding the other person’s side, and you’re humble enough to accept and take responsibility for your contribution to the conflict.

OMG GUYS!!! Do you know how long I’ve been working on this????? I am SCREAMING.

Luckily @redsketches took pity on me and helped me finish it off. In the process, I pulled her into our fandom, fufufu

But seriously, mad props to her! Thank you!!! Go check her out guys!

In the meantime, PLEASE ENJOY THIS. I love Magnus Chase and I am so sad to see it end (no spoilers pls only halfway through the last book ^^) I hope we see Magnus and his crazy world(s) again! In the meantime, we still have Star to fall back on :)

Credits and thanks to both Rick Riordan and Daron Nefcy for creating these two gems!! Thanks to Disney for helping them!!!

Ps: here are some extra char that I drew for this! May update this post with more later ^^

“You
had Aunt Lysa send a letter to our parents telling them it was the
Lannisters who murdered Jon Arryn when, really, it was you. The
conflict between the Starks and the Lannisters, it was you who
started it. Do you deny it?”

when he lands a shot with his sniper-rifle that even he wasn’t sure he could do, he always lets out a long low whistle

the team are freaking out because a lion has been captured, but lance clenches his fists and raises his voice over their shouting

lance: ‘listen to me. this is how we’re gonna get it back.’

he’s really good at strategy and planning and shiro always enlists his help in making plans to defeat the galra

lance says casually ‘hunk, move your head to the left’ before taking down a drone over his shoulder with one clean shot

lance is happy with red and he misses blue, but he also wants more because he knows he can offer something else to the team. one day, he’s arguing with keith in the black lion’s hangar about the team’s future

keith: ‘if what you’re saying about shiro is true, then i don’t- i don’t know what to do. if something happened to me, who would even pilot black?’ lance: ‘you’re looking right at him’

Sam Smith just came out as nonbinary and I’m screaming? This is probably going to go down terribly in the media but the fact that he was brave enough to do such a thing when 97% of the world don’t believe nonbinary is a thing is amazing to me? I nearly cried I’m so happy that we actually have some representation